Flexible slender, wooden stick usually with horsehair stretched across it used to produce sound vibrations of a cello, violin, and other instruments

French word naming the 'stick' some conductors use to conduct an orchestra

Stringed musical instrument played by plucking and used in folk and blue-grass music

Family of musical instruments made of coiled metal and usually having a mouthpiece, such as a trumpet, tuba, or trombone

Male singing voice lower than tenor, but NOT the lowest male singing voice

Classic dancing performed to music and presenting an idea or story, usually with costumes and scenery

Melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence.

Italian for a very deep bass voice

Lowest range of the male singing voice

Largest and lowest-toned of the double-headed drums

Memphis, Tennessee, street famous for its blues music

Second largest and second lowest pitched of the woodwinds, a double reed instrument that is considered the tenor of the oboe family and usually plays the bass part

Large ensembles playing American jazz and dance music, or the dance music played by the orchestras of the Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s

Style of singing characterized by close harmony of male voices, especially in sentimental songs rendered by quartets

Flute, with a pitch a 4th lower than the concert flute, usually made in a 'J' shape

Russian word meaning 'great' or 'big' that names Moscow's oldest theater, the home of an opera and ballet company

Lively Spanish dance in triple time

Simple song or poem that tells a story

17th- to 18th-century musical style marked by elaborate ornamentation and named from the Portuguese barroco meaning 'irregular shaped pearl'

Style of jazz popular during the late 1940s and early 1950s characterized by complex rhythms, dissonance, instrumental improvisation, and the singing of meaningless syllables

American folk music characterized by rapid notes and improvisation and the use of stringed instruments such as the guitar, banjo, and fiddle

Horizontal handrail used by a dancer to work on ballet exercises

Shrill-toned musical instrument typically associated with Scotland; called a zampogna in Italy, a Dudelsack in Germany, and a cornemuse in France

Stringed musical instrument with a triangular body and long neck that was developed by the Tatars of central Russia and used for Russian songs and dance music

Instrument somewhat like a mandolin used by the folk musicians of Greece and having a long neck with 2 courses of 3 metal strings tuned like a guitar

French for 'trifle' for a short, light musical composition, usually for piano

Another name for the double bass or viola da gamba

German city where Richard Wagner built his own opera house

Italian for a singing style characterized by a full, rich tone

Blues-based style of jazz piano playing dating to the late 1920s in which the right hand plays a melody, while the left hand plays a rhythmic bass accompaniment

French term used in ballet for any beating movement and often used to precede the words tendu, glissé, and dégagé

Italian meaning 'small boat' for a boating song of the Venetian gondoliers or an instrumental composition with a slow tempo reminiscent of their songs

France's government-sponsored school of fine arts that developed out of the Ecole Académique founded by Jules Cardinal Mazarin in 1648 and the Ecole de l'Académie d'Architecture founded by Jean Baptiste Colbert in 1671